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Should we give up on all altruist causes because the AGI God is nearly here? the answer may surprise you!
tldr; actually you shouldn't give because the AGI God might not be quite omnipotent and thus would still benefit from your help and maybe there will be multiple Gods, some used for Good and some for Evil so your efforts are still needed. Shrimp are getting their eyeballs cut off right now!
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Well I suppose it can't be much worse than graphology or myers-briggs!
Ouch. Also, I'm raging and didn't even realize I had barbarian levels.
Managed to stumble across two separate attempts to protect promptfondlers' feelings from getting hurt like they deserve, titled "Shame in the machine: affective accountability and the ethics of AI" and "AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work".
I found both of them whilst trawling Bluesky, and they're being universally mocked like they deserve on there.
I really like how the second one appropriates pseudomarxist language to have a go at those snooty liberal elites again.
edit: The first paper might be making a perfectly valid point at a glance??
Not sure if this was already posted here but saw it on LI this morning - AI for Good [Appearance?] - sometimes we focus on the big companies and miss how awful the sycophantic ecosystem gets.
I try to talk to ChatGPT for 2 straight hours but go crazy and have to stop | Daniel Hentschel
I'm here to help in whatever way I can. Just let me know what you'd like to do next.
What I'd like to do next is fucking hang myself. Oh shit I shouldn't have said that. No, I'm joking. That was a joke. I was joking about that. Joking.
I'm sorry he feels that way. I'm here for him if he wants to talk about anything, just let me know.
I feel called out for being familiar with all of these words.
The dread was building up right until I got jumpscared by
"priors"
today's least surprising news: substack's coterie of totally-not-nazis fucking love AI https://on.substack.com/p/the-substack-ai-report
Picked up a sneer in the wild (through trawling David Gerard's Bluesky):
You want my take, Kathryn's on the money - future expectations on how people speak will actively shift away from anything that could be mistaken for sounding like an LLM, whether because you want to avoid being falsely accused of posting slop, or because the slop-nami has pushed your writing habits away from slop-like traits.
Not a sneer, but still inexplicably funny: You Can Now Venmo the Government to Help Pay Off National Debt
Going through work email I saw a link o an article about Quantum-AI. It was behind paywall, and I am not paying for reading about how woo+woo=woo^2. What do you do when your bubble isn't inflating anymore? Couple it with another stale bubble!
eyeballing the orange site top-frontpage, and:
shit should come with a strain warning